Martinez C Elementary School

Size

Of the 178 elementary schools in Houston ISD, Martinez C Elementary School is the 162nd largest, with 0.2% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 0.9 miles away and have a median of 339 students, so Martinez C Elementary School is smaller than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 3 with 47 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 30, against an average of 39 per grade. This year grade 5 has 17% fewer students than kindergarten (30 against 36). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 44 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 53.5% of enrollment, a lower share than across Houston ISD (61.7%). Black students are next, at 45.8%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

97.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 79.3% across Houston ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Martinez C Elementary School has 19.21 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 271 students would have about 18.3 teachers, so Martinez C Elementary School has about as many as that.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Looscan Elementary School, 0.4 miles away in the same district. There are 60 elementary schools within 5 miles and 213 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.